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tips for getting baby to sleep
Connor seems to like to be rocked to sleep, likes to sleep on my belly, in
my bed or his car seat but can't get him to settle in his moses basket. I've tried swaddling, rolling a blanket up a blanket and placing them either side of him to make him feel secure, rocking him in the basket but no joy. Any tips? -- LG -- Please sponsor my childminding toddlers for barnados big toddle 2007 http://www.justgiving.com/cliftonchildminder -- Need a childminder in or around NG11 Nottingham? http://www.freewebs.com/cliftonchildminder/index.htm -- |
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tips for getting baby to sleep
How old is he again? Taylor was like that for the first few months.
Finally I decided that I was going to have to fight that battle until I won. I swaddled and wrapped a few blankets gently around her on top of that, and held her until she just barely fell asleep. Then I'd gently lay her down. The moment I did, she'd wake up. She was like the opposite of those baby dolls whose eyes close when you lay them down. I'd put my hand on her and very very gently rock her. I left her down until she fussed, which the first few days was literally a few minutes. But if you have nothing else to do, no other children or responsibilities, you just concentrate on this, eventually he'll get tired, because he won't be napping at all, and eventually he won't fuss as you put him down. I'm thinking it took a week, all day long for about 7 days. But eventually she wouldn't fuss when I laid her down, and eventually after that, she wouldn't wake up any more. After I got her weaned from the falling asleep on my chest or in my arms, I was careful to always lay her down awake if I could and let her fall asleep on her own. But really, that came after another few months -- in the beginning, you are just so thrilled to get an hour or two with the baby sleeping SOMEWHERE OTHER THAN IN YOUR ARMS! that you don't even worry about the next part! -- Jamie Earth Angels: Taylor Marlys -- 01/03/03 Addison Grace -- 09/30/04 Check out the family! -- www.MyFamily.com, User ID: Clarkguest1, Password: Guest Become a member for free - go to Add Member to set up your own User ID and Password "Karen (LG)" wrote in message ... Connor seems to like to be rocked to sleep, likes to sleep on my belly, in my bed or his car seat but can't get him to settle in his moses basket. I've tried swaddling, rolling a blanket up a blanket and placing them either side of him to make him feel secure, rocking him in the basket but no joy. Any tips? -- LG -- Please sponsor my childminding toddlers for barnados big toddle 2007 http://www.justgiving.com/cliftonchildminder -- Need a childminder in or around NG11 Nottingham? http://www.freewebs.com/cliftonchildminder/index.htm -- |
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tips for getting baby to sleep
My DD was easy, she would not sleep in her crib, but she would sleep in her
cradle swing or in her playpen or on a floormat before she was able to roll over or crawl (our house has no pets and at the time, no other kids, so this was safe when she was a newborn, plus I never left her alone). Basically all I had to do was put her down where I wanted her to sleep and put on classical music or lullabyes- I used Baby Einstein DVDs, nothing fancy. It seemed to be the repetition and soft music. She liked the tv on rather than silence so it was simple enough to me to have the Baby Mozart on. Other than the swing and relaxing sounds, all my advice is probably pretty pat...swaddling, rocking, etc. If you want to read a book or watch a DVD my friends had good luck with Happiest Baby On The Block, they followed advice in there- I never read it. I was pretty lucky with DD so I expect #2 not to be so easy. |
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tips for getting baby to sleep
Karen (LG) wrote:
Connor seems to like to be rocked to sleep, likes to sleep on my belly, in my bed or his car seat but can't get him to settle in his moses basket. I've tried swaddling, rolling a blanket up a blanket and placing them either side of him to make him feel secure, rocking him in the basket but no joy. Having had one baby, I've got to say that my personal take on this would be to save yourself a lot of hassle and just go ahead with letting him sleep where he's happy sleeping. The problem with all this advice you get in the baby books about getting your baby into Good Sleep Habits from the start, blah blah blah, is that it always assumes that that's going to be somehow easier than leaving it until later. It wasn't until I had a baby that I realised that this wasn't necessarily the case. Actually, I was so used to trusting baby books that it wasn't until a couple of months down the line that I gradually, through a fog of sleep deprivation, realised that this wasn't necessarily the case. What finally sank in was that, for me and my baby, it wasn't going to be the choice between easily getting him adapted to the crib from the start or a struggle later on that the books make you think it's going to be. It was going to be a choice between a struggle now and a struggle later on, and I realised I'd rather have a struggle with an older baby than with a young one who was still getting used to the world. But that's me. And I was actually OK with letting him sleep in my bed at the time - it was more of a "I can't do things this way now because I'll be stuck with it forever and regret it in six months/a year/five years" fear. You might feel differently and really feel you're not getting on at all with having him sleep in your bed - some mothers can't sleep that way, and maybe there are reasons I don't know about why you wouldn't be able to follow safe co-sleeping guidelines (always important). So, if this is something you want to change right now, then what I'd recommend would be to place a folded blanket between the sheet and the mattress (anti-SIDS fears mean the mattresses are so firm that they become downright uncomfortable sometimes), put something of yours in the basket so he's got your scent, maybe put a heartbeat recording down next to him so it's as much like being held as possible, get him to the point where he's drowsy & relaxed and seems ready to fall asleep, swaddle him, put him down, and just stand there patting him gently and making soothing shhhh-ing noises. He won't stay awake forever - it just feels that way - and that way he's comfortable and knows you're still there, so even if it stresses him out somewhat it'll be within the limits of what he can deal with. The more often you do this, the more he'll get used to falling asleep there. However, it is more work and hassle and I wouldn't bother unless there is some specific reason why co-sleeping isn't an option right now. All the best, Sarah -- http://www.goodenoughmummy.typepad.com "That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be" - P. C. Hodgell |
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